Drivers Face Another Week Of Delays, Detours

February 2, 1986|By Jon Marcus, Transportation Writer

New and continuing road construction, bridge repairs and railroad reconstruction will mean at least another week of detours for Broward drivers.

Today, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the southbound left lane of Interstate 95 over the Dania Cutoff Canal will be closed for repairs to a guardrail damaged in an accident. The work is south of State Road 84 and north of Griffin Road.

On Monday, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., one eastbound lane on the Atlantic Boulevard bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway will be closed because the eastern span is stuck in the down, or closed, position. Only half the bridge will be opened for marine traffic today and Monday during the emergency repairs.

On Monday at 8 a.m. through Friday at 5 p.m., east and westbound traffic on Northwest 15th Street in Pompano Beach will be detoured to other local roads while workers reconstruct a Seaboard System rail crossing.

On Tuesday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Taft Street in Hollywood will be closed to traffic while beams are placed across a Florida`s Turnpike bridge above it. The turnpike bridge is to be widened from four to six lanes, and federal construction regulations bar highway crews from working over active roadways.

Instead of Taft Street, motorists should use Sheridan or Johnson streets.

Sheridan also is recommended as a detour during work to widen Taft Street, a project undertaken by the county last month.

``If it is at all possible, people should use Sheridan instead of Taft,`` said Pete Cowick of the county traffic engineering office. ``That job (on Taft Street) is well under way now.``

Sheridan is open west to University Drive, but it is being repaved between University Drive and Palm Avenue. Griffin Road is being widened and improved from Federal Highway to State Road 7. Traffic on Prospect Road is affected by continuing work to widen the road from North Andrews Avenue to Dixie Highway.

Coral Springs motorcycle police will be looking out for speeders and violations involving semitrailer trucks and other heavy trucks on Coral Springs Drive between Sample and Wiles roads this week, a department spokesman said.

New left-turn signals will be installed by the state Department of Transportation and Broward County at Atlantic Boulevard and Federal Highway within six months, according to State Rep. Debby Sanderson, R-Fort Lauderdale.